DaveDarby
As I understand it, streets or villages have assemblies of around 200 people. they make very local decisions and elect delegates to the district or town assemblies, and they make district-level decisions and elect delegates to the general assembly of Rojava, who make decisions for the whole of rojava. No professional politicians, no political parties. Why couldn't that happen here – uplands and pagan hill assemblies electing the stroud assembly, and the stroud, gloucester, tewkesbury etc. assemblies electing the gloucester assembly – and so on.
Could it only happen through crisis. Are we too comfortable?
People don't get paid for attending base level assemblies – they are social as well as governance groups, and they are providing care and governance for themselves, so they don't get paid for it.
Delegates to the next levels are paid a small amount because they're missing work to carry out their duties, and it's not social, and they're making decisions for wider areas. But no professional politicians, no campaigning, fixed-terms and can be recalled at any time.
But the reason it might not work in the west could be because it would be too expensive (a town assembly costs c. 60k in the UK).
